fopen question

[juschillinnow]

I ran into this problem before. When using fopen it return an error that the permissions are wrong.

If the file I'm trying to fopen is in a directory where the permissions are set to 0777, should fopen be able to create the file inside of that directory?

and also. Is there a way to change the permission on the file that fopen created to 0777?

[mogster]

I do it like this, but I'm not sure your directory is set to 777 - that's the only reason I can see for the perms error.
You don't HAVE to change the file perms to 777, the default is (AFAIK) 755, which gives the user Nobody/Nogroup right to read/write/exe the file.
Which works just splendid

if (!file_exists("the_file.txt")) { 
touch("the_file.txt"); // Create blank file 
chmod("the_file.txt",0777); 
}
$a = fopen("the_file.txt", "w");
fputs($a, $string_to_file);
fclose($a);

knutm